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A. When required. Except as provided in Subsection (B) of this Section, a completed environmental checklist or a copy, in the form provided in 197-11-960 WAC, shall be filed at the same time as an application for a permit, license, certificate or other approval not specifically exempted in this Chapter.

B. Exemptions. An environmental checklist is not needed for the following proposals:

1. Proposals where the City and applicant agree an EIS is required.

2. Proposals where SEPA compliance has been previously completed.

3. Proposals where SEPA compliance has been initiated by another agency.

4. Public proposals on which the lead agency has decided to prepare its own EIS.

C. Other provisions.

1. The City shall use the environmental checklist to determine the lead agency and, if the City is the lead agency, to determine the responsible official for making the threshold determination.

2. For private proposals, the City will require the applicant to complete the environmental checklist, providing assistance as the City determines necessary.

3. For City proposals, the department initiating the proposal shall complete the environmental checklist for that proposal.

4. The City may require that it, and not the private applicant, will complete all or a part of the environmental checklist for a private proposal, if either of the following occurs:

a. The City has technical information on a question or questions that is unavailable to the private applicant; or

b. The applicant has provided inaccurate information on previous proposals or on proposals currently under consideration.

5. For projects submitted as planned actions under 197-11-164 WAC, the City shall use its existing environmental checklist form or may modify the environmental checklist form as provided in 197-11-315 WAC. The modified environmental checklist form may be prepared and adopted along with or as part of a planned action ordinance; or developed after the ordinance is adopted. In either case, a proposed modified environmental checklist form must be sent to Ecology to allow at least a 30 day review prior to use. (Ord. M-3643, 2004)